Mulcahy, Richard James

Thursday, 12 November 1925

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 13 No. 3

Page of 36

POLICY OF MINISTER FOR EDUCATION (RESUMED DEBATE).

They have not.

I should like to express my opinion that the Dáil, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Finance, and people as a whole, must face the fact that we have got to spend a pretty big sum for the pr...

Did your heart not go down 55 degrees below zero? We have to spend money to provide proper school buildings and in spite of the fairy grandmother from Missouri that Deputy Alton told us about I think ...

I did not misunderstand Deputy Alton, but other people may say that we can easily hold back from doing a lot of things by feeling that the people in Donegal should pay for Donegal schools and the peop...

On the matter of primary education and secondary education I think ordinary people have to be satisfied that the Minister has tackled these two branches of education in as systematic a way as was poss...

There is just this point, that in the case here the children are apparently leaving the primary schools at what is not the right age.